Category Archives: Tips for Fathers

An excellent antenatal class opened in 2013 in South Kensington. It is a mothers only group, which meets every week, for 8 weeks. We very much enjoyed meeting Dr Chiara Hunt and Marina Fogel, sisters who set up the Bump […]

Kensington Midwives recommend good baby care advice and practical support for new mothers. A few weeks ago we met Eilish, founder of The Baby Care Company, and we were very impressed by her enthusiasm, knowledge and sense of fun. Her classes […]

A woman who exercises before and during pregnancy will have strengthened muscles and find it easier to support her extra weight. She will also cope better in labour. Kensington Midwives recommend their clients to keep up with regular daily exercise […]

All drugs, including tobacco and alcohol, may endanger the health of a developing baby. Drinking alcohol during pregnancy may have serious effects on your baby. These include physical and neurological anomalies, developmental delay, attention deficiency and hyperactivity. The worst cases […]

Kensington Midwives recently visited the Baby Show, Earls Court, London and met the team at Baby Concierge. We impressed by their idea and perhaps this personal help with shopping for a new baby will be helpful to some of our […]

“One thing I couldn’t quite get my head around when I found out I was pregnant was that I would have no relationship whatsoever with the midwife who would be delivering my baby. As Little A was destined for an […]

Being underweight and overweight are linked to complications before, during and after pregnancy, so it is important to make healthy changes to your weight as soon as you can. Being under weight, with a BMI or body mass index of […]

For the first time pregnant women are to be offered the whooping cough vaccine after the largest outbreak of whooping cough for 20 years. Kensington Midwives will be encouraging all pregnant women to take up this offer. Vaccinating pregnant women […]

Kensington Midwives recommend that all mothers-to be have a flu vaccination, but we are aware that some women will not want to have one, so here are some general measures to prevent Seasonal and Swine Flu. You can reduce, but […]

Yes. Kensington Midwives advise all mothers-to-be to have the seasonal flu vaccination. Last year the Royal College of Midwives’ Deputy General Secretary said that midwives were, ”Strongly advised to encourage all pregnant women to be vaccinated against seasonal flu.” If […]